Axel Wers Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 Why does this board use iso-8859-1 encoding and not utf-8? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Matt Posted November 2, 2012 Management Share Posted November 2, 2012 Legacy reasons really. IP.Board 1.0 to 2.0 used ISO-8859-1 as the default encoding. We've not found a compelling enough reason to convert all the data over to UTF-8. It can be tricky when you consider serialized strings that may contain non UTF-8 characters so converting them over may break them, etc. We do want to convert to UTF-8 at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axel Wers Posted November 4, 2012 Author Share Posted November 4, 2012 Legacy reasons really. IP.Board 1.0 to 2.0 used ISO-8859-1 as the default encoding. Thanks We do want to convert to UTF-8 at some point. Yes, it would be good because to special characters problems. When I have some issues with ľščťžýáíéúäô on my utf-8 board, here on iso-8859-1 board I couldn't reproduce it. I didn't have bigger problems with this, but who knows... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian M. Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Thats when i manually convert the DB to UTF-8, because when you import some sql files within a DB the encoding doesnt accept the special characters so i just decided to manually change the DB to UTF-8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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